We don’t have prices for the boards yet, but we would love to hear what do you think the price should be.

In general we use prices of boards like BladeRF and HackRF as a reference point. There are many things which can make the board significantly cheaper or much more expensive, though, and we can’t announce the price until we fix the feature set and understand demand (and thus quantity).

We’re using Xilinx Artix 7 XC7A35T for prototypes. We haven’t decided yet whether we’ll use it, or 15T or 50T in production. What is your application? We’re looking for more user feedback and use cases to make a proper decision.

Oh, and duh, forgot to say – having the bigger FPGA (even at an elevated price) would allow e.g. correlators and FFT’s to be in the FPGA, which would seem to be important.

The 50T looks to be ~$30 more than the 15T, but has slices similar to the Zynq 7020 we’re using (although fewer DSPs). That’s a pretty good compromise although another option would be to have two models (small & then 100T/200T variant, but that may not make sense).

Compared to the LimeSDR, which uses the same RF chip, the 50T would also seem to match their Cyclone resources.

We’re thinking about two versions – like Lite and Pro with different feature set. Our current idea is that Lite will have 15T and pro will have 50T. Unfortunately it’s impossible to put 100T/200T in miniPCIe form factor – chip packages for these chips are just too big.

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I habe some question. I looking for an Client he want for an Bus Entertainment System something who can “Decode” all Available DAB(+) Transponder. Is there any way to get the Bandwidth for?
It also look very interesting for some Multi Channel System. Hopefully it will be possible use it in GNU Radio?
Is there any Plan to make a Version only for reception the cheap as possible way to use Multiple SDR in one System for different Bands. (For example its not necessary to have an huge bandwith when there is anything I am not interested in….)

Found you via your 33C3 talk, very excited! Can you please share some details about the analog front end? Is there a Power Amplifier for TX? Is there a Low Noise Amplifier for RX? Are there switchable filters, and what frequency curves? Ok, maybe too many questions but those are the basics.

XTRX itself doesn’t have any PA or LNA due to size and (more importantly) power consumption limitations. Mini PCIe has a limit of 2.5W and we’re already at 2.3W when both channels are receiving and transmitting.

XTRX also don’t have switchable filters, because they are application specific and we believe it’s better to use external filters specific for your application. just LTE has tens of bands and we can’t put filters for all of them in.

We expect mass production at H2 this year. There will be prototypes available for selected early adopters in in Q2 this year, but they are limited to our partners who already have significant experience in SDR space.

I recommend you to look at getting something like LimeSDR to start with and get back to XTRX when you need something really industrial/embedable 🙂

Not sure about full production yet. It depends on the Early Access Program results – whether we’ll need to make any changes before going into production and how many customers we can accumulate for the first production run. Price for 10,000 units is quite different from 1,000 units 🙂